WAC 388-448-0160 When do my general assistance benefits end?

1. The maximum period of eligibility for general assistance is twelve months before we must review additional medical evidence. We use medical evidence and the expected length of time before you are capable of gainful employment to decide when your benefits will end.

2. Your benefits stop at the end of your incapacity period unless you provide additional medical evidence that demonstrates during your current incapacity period that there was no material improvement in your impairment. No material improvement means that your impairment continues to meet the progressive evaluation process criteria in WAC 388-448-0010 through WAC 388-448-0110, excluding the requirement that your impairment(s) prevent employment for ninety days. 

3. Additional medical evidence must meet all of the criteria defined in WAC 388-448-0030.

4. We use additional medical evidence received after your incapacity period had ended when:

   1. (a) The delay was not due to your failure to cooperate; and

   2. (b) We receive the evidence within thirty days of the end of your incapacity period; and

   3. (c) The evidence meets the progressive evaluation process criteria in WAC 388-448-0010 through WAC 388-448-0110.

5. You must provide information about your cooperation and progress with treatment or agency referrals we required according to WAC 388-448-0130.

6. Even if your condition has not improved, you are not eligible for general assistance when:

   1. We get current medical evidence that does not meet the progressive evaluation process criteria in WAC 388-448-0035 through WAC 388-448-0110; and

   2. Our prior decision that your incapacity met the requirements was incorrect because:

      1. The information we had was incorrect or not enough to show incapacity; or

      2. We did not apply the rules correctly to the information we had at that time.